In summer, there are many days of wind and rain. After the weather clears, the roads outside Yanshan Prefecture City are muddy. The gatekeepers who guard the door organized officers and soldiers to fill the road with stone slabs to make the muddy roads easier to walk.

Outside the city gate, there were sparse woods at the foot of the dark mountain. When the broken and lush weeds in front of the door were covered with splashing soil, men, women, young and old lined up, some led cattle and sheep, and some pushed wheelbarrows, and were rushing into the city.

"Everything is fast, don't delay!" The officials at the door kept urging, with a stern face, pushing the crowd from time to time, looking hurried, and looking into the distance from time to time.

The sky is covered with clouds. Under the distant sky, a few beams of light shone through the clouds to the earth, like dazzling swords, piercing the earth from the night of the clouds.

Wei Chaoren stood at the top of the city and watched the crowds below enter the city one after another.

He believed in his judgment that there were a large number of people carrying food gathered on the Shanhaiguan side, and some people came out of seclusion to start cleaning the avenue, and trees above horses on the roadside were cut down.

Moreover, the smoke behind Shanhaiguan is much thicker than before.

As a veteran on the battlefield, Wei Chaoren fought for most of his life. Although he could not say that he had won every battle, he was very experienced. He could guess about how many Jin troops were north of Shanhaiguan when he looked at the stove that made fire.

A month ago, the Jin army stationed about 1,000 people in Shanhaiguan, and at most no more than 2,000 people. Shanhaiguan is an important pass, so it is reasonable to station so many people.

But then the smoke from cooking increased. Until today, he speculated that the Jin people had already hoarded more than 10,000 troops after Shanhaiguan.

Although Shanhaiguan is dangerous, it is not like Yanshan Prefecture. It is surrounded by a wide terrain and radiates many villages. It is the center of this generation. It can support many people and is a real big town. Even if it is permanently stationed in 10,000 troops, it is not a problem.

So the Jin people's actions were obvious, they gathered troops in Shanhaiguan!

There is only one possibility to assemble troops in Shanhaiguan, which is to go south!

Therefore, while Wei Chaoren sent scouts to patrol and monitor the movements of the Jin army in the north of Yanshan Prefecture, he also ordered the people of villages and towns outside the city to enter the city to take refuge as much as possible.

Yanshan Prefecture is more desolate than the Central Plains city, but as a major northern town, it has experienced many wars, but there are many designs in the city that adapt to war. For example, it is wide enough to accommodate the people around it in a crisis. There are pits dug every fifty steps at the foot of the city, so that a large number of people gathered in the city will not be foul or stagnant.

Sometimes these pits are more useful than a 100,000 army. The soldiers are more valuable than the essence, not the more. Mediocre people are afraid of fewer soldiers, and veterans are afraid of bad soldiers.

"If you want to defend Yanshan Mansion, it will be bad if there are too many people." Wei Chaoren said, with several of his deputy generals and Wei Yubai in military uniform following him.

"There are too many people, and it will be troublesome to replenish food and grass. So many people gather together, and it is easy to cause plague." Wei Chaoren frowned, but he could not sit idly by the lives and death of the people around him. If the Jin soldiers head south and they are still outside the city, they will definitely have a miserable end. Burning, killing, looting is indispensable.

"The prince said that he would only need to keep it for a month. If the situation is wrong, he would send reinforcements again." Wei Yubai said.

Wei Chaoren nodded, and then said to his daughter: "I have brought you all ten thousand people and I have never told you how to arrange it, whether it is dressed or weapons."

"We can camp outside the city."

"I'm afraid there are too many dangers..." Someone said: "If the Jin army came too many times, it would be difficult to deal with it."

"It's okay, we are stationed in the south of the city. If the Jin army attacks the city, we can attack outside. If the Jin army is too strong and cannot resist it, we will retreat to Qigouguan and beside the Xingpinghe army. If there are too many people in the city, once the Jin army goes south in large numbers, we will be surrounded and killed in the city. It will be a big trouble."

Wei Chaoren nodded: "I am always worried about Xingping defending Qigou Pass. I will follow your arrangements. But remember, don't be too stubborn with the Jin army. Since the King of Jin wants us to defend, it will be enough to defend it."

Seeing his daughter nodding, he felt more at ease. It was true that there could not be too many people in the city, and he gradually understood the ambitions of King Jin.

The King of Jin did not want to resist the Jin Kingdom, he seemed to want to severely invade the Jin Kingdom and cross Shanhaiguan...

If such a thing had happened before, he would not even think about it. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had plagued the court for more than a hundred years. Tens of thousands of soldiers died and they had not taken them back, let alone crossing Shanhaiguan.

But unexpectedly, one day, someone could suddenly fight to Yanshan Prefecture and regain most of Yanyun's sixteen prefectures. This person was the King of Jin who had saved his life.

When he heard that King Jin took back Yanshan Mansion, he was also shocked. Not only did he do something that no one could do in a century, but he also thought that King Jin was too young...

Now that I slowly think back, he was a little resistant to the actions of King Jin before, because he didn't believe it, and based on his half-life experience, he didn't believe it.

But now thinking about what King Jin did, what could be considered by what he knew and experienced?

Perhaps I was wrong from the beginning, and King Jin could not be judged by ordinary people...

Thinking about his young actions, a hot flame ignited in his heart, to resolve the affairs of the king and the world, and to win fame, glory, praise, and reputation in history. Who doesn’t want to? But more often, even if the ministers want to, the emperor who enjoys glory and power does not want...

But now seeing the King of Jin and his ambitions, Wei Chaoren couldn't help but feel excited. Looking at the distant sky, his hands tightly holding the cold and hard bricks, the world seemed to have more expectations.

.........

When the rain stopped, the weather completely cleared up, and the muddy avenue outside Yanshan City began to dry up and crack, leaving only some shallow puddles, and the weeds that were trampled on the roadside grew tenaciously.

Scouts from the north began to move south into the city one after another, and most of the things they brought were not good news.

A few days later, from a distance, from the north of Yanshan City, you can see dense figures shaking under the flags on the plains under the black and gray mountains.

The black Jin army had already crossed Shanhaiguan and headed south.

The vanguard looked up and saw that it had already spread to the north road of the city.

In the afternoon of that day, more than a thousand Jin army pioneers had already arrived at the city of Yanshan.

The bells ringing in the city of Yanshan, figures shaking, and the soldiers nervously set up defenses, but the Jin vanguard did not stay too much, but ran around the city for half a circle outside the city, shouting something, and the Han soldiers could not understand it.

Afterwards, more than a thousand people camped next to the avenue outside the city.

That night, the atmosphere at the city wall was tense, so we changed the guard posts in batches. Wei Chaoren personally went to the city wall to see the Jin people's camp.

At noon the next day, the Jin people's follow-up troops arrived, catching flags that everyone could not understand, but the flag of the middle commander was golden. The defenders guessed that it was probably a certain Wanyan royal family, and they became even more nervous.

The subsequent army and infantry accounted for the majority, densely packed on both sides of the avenue. The lush weeds were trampled into flat ground. The main force of the Jin army said at least ten thousand people. Wei Chaoren said a number after looking at the city wall, 25,000 people.

The head coach of the Jin army was obviously a man who had fought the war. After the main force arrived, he did not rush to attack or sent anyone to shout. Instead, he seized the trees outside the city and camped on the open ground four or five miles away from the city wall, close to the stream and the main road, and then set up a horse to bury the pot to make rice.

It was not until the afternoon that an envoy who could speak Chinese was sent to approach the city wall and shouted to ask the defenders in the city to surrender, otherwise they would pacify Yanshan City!

The Jin army was very morale and shouted in unison outside the city, which shocked the sky, which really scared many soldiers of the defenders.

Wei Chaoren made a quick decision and ordered an arrow to shoot the caller to death at the city, showing his determination to defend the city, and also cut off the fear of soldiers and generals who should not have any thoughts.

The Jin army was furious, and the vanguard cavalry circled the city halfway and cursed in words they couldn't understand. Then the Jin army began to log on the spot and make siege equipment.

The war is about to break out...
Chapter completed!